As the price of gas and electricity threatened to double, then triple, through 2022, friers were opening their energy bills with gritted teeth. This meal is prepared using a great guzzler of a range cooker that must be kept on and roiling at all hours of a trading day.
More distressing was the problem of rising energy costs.
War in Ukraine coupled with ongoing complications from Brexit had driven up prices of almost all the goods that fish and chip shops depended on, from live ingredients to oil and salt to packaging. The driver of the tattie lorry, a red-cheeked Scotsman named Richard Murray, carried keys for most of the businesses on his route, to save from waking any tired friers who’d been up late the night before, poring anxiously over their sums.
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